'Lynching' Flyers Found On Crown Heights 4 Train: Report

CROWN HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN — Graphic flyers depicting lynching were found on a Brooklyn 4 train on Tuesday, the same day President Joe Biden signed a bill making the act a federal hate crime, according to police and the New York Post.

The flyers "depicting graphic executions (lynching)" were found by a straphanger in a train at the Utica Avenue station near Eastern Parkway on Tuesday afternoon, according to police and an MTA report obtained by the Post.

Police, who were called to the station, described the images to Patch as pictures "depicting an anti-Black portrait." The incident is being investigated by the NYPD's Hate Crimes Task Force, a spokesperson said.

The photocopied images appeared the same day that President Biden signed The Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act, which makes lynching a federal hate crime. Congress has failed to pass legislation surrounding lynching almost 200 times since it was first introduced in 1900, according to reports.

More details about Tuesday's vandalism were not immediately available from the MTA.

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